Scholarships

For Your Gap Year

Why Scholarships?

At Carpe Diem, we strive to offer affordable gap year programs and make them accessible to all interested students. To that end, we have designed a three-pronged scholarship program to support socioeconomic diversity within our student groups. Our three scholarship options are: 1) Access Scholarship, 2) Inclusion Scholarship, 3) Carpe Mundi Scholarship.

Access Scholarship

Availability

Up to two $5,000 scholarships/year and four $2,500 scholarships/year

Eligibility

Must be eligible to receive Federal Pell Grant through a FAFSA submission

Participant in a Fall group semester or the Latitudes Year program

Priority consideration will be given to students of color and first-generation college students

Must have submitted a program application or have already been accepted into a Carpe Diem program

For applications received after May 1st: if there are scholarship funds remaining, we will review your scholarship application as soon as possible and get in touch if we are able to offer you financial support.

Carpe Mundi Scholarship

In addition to the Access and Inclusion scholarships, Carpe Diem supports Portland-based students through the Carpe Mundi Scholarship. Carpe Mundi, the non-profit branch of Carpe Diem, organizes a full-year mentorship program for low-income, first-generation college students from the Portland area, including participation on a Carpe Diem Gap Year semester.

Carpe Diem provides up to $150,000/year in scholarships to support 30 Carpe Mundi students.